Robert Self, Department of History, Brown University

Brown University Thursday Lecture Series

"There's Nothing the Matter with Kansas: Family, Sex, and Politics at the End of the American Century"

Jeremy Mumford, Department of History, University of Mississippi

Brown University Thursday Lecture Series

"Ethnography, Ethnocide, and Social Engineering: The 'General Resettlement of Indians' in Sixteenth-Century Peru "

Thursday, October 1, 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel Room, corner of Brown and Angell St.

John Logan, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University

Brown University Thursday Lecture Series

"New Uses of Historical GIS: Immigrant Incorporation in the 19th Century City "

Robert A. Gross, The James L. and Shirley Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut will deliver a lecture on the topic of "Helen Thoreau's Anti-Slavery Scrapbook: Abolitionism and Transcendentalism in Concord, Massachusetts"

Invited by The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Department of American Civilization, the Department of English, and the Department of History.

There will be a reception following the lecture.

Judith Surkis, Department of History, Harvard University

Brown University Thursday Lecture Series

"A Tale of Two Scandals: Legal and Sexual Conflict in French Algeria "

Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University will be celebrated by The John Carter Brown Library on the publication of "Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 " (Oxford University Press).

Reception to follow brief remarks.

Palmira Brummett, Department of History, University of Tennessee

Brown University Thursday Lecture Series

"Mapping The Early Modern Ottoman Empire: Imagination, Circulation, and the Image/Text Interface "

Robert Sommer, Humboldt University, Berlin

Brown University Thursday Lecture Series

"Camp Brothels: Sexual Slavery in Nazi Concentration Camps "

Ronnie Hsia, Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University will deliver The 29th William F. Church Memorial Lecture titled "Elective Affinities: Europe, China, and the Jesuits, 1580-1800 "

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Jesuit missionaries were primarily responsible for representing an admirable Chinese civilization to the West; after the mid-18th century, they became associated in the European imagination with its decline. This lecture will present both a history of the reception of China in Europe between 1600 and the early 20th century, as well as its relationship to the actual history of the Catholic mission in China.

Conevery Bolton Valencius, History of Science, Harvard University

Brown University Thursday Lecture Series

"Vernacular Science: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 and Early American Scientific Imagination "

This year's mid-year undergraduate honors students will be presenting their theses. Below you'll find a schedule for the presentations. Refreshments provided. We hope you'll be able to drop in!                      

2:30 pm
Hannah Mintz A prism of defeat: The shifting impact of the 1967 War in shaping the memory of Gamal Abd al-Nasser in Egypt

3:00 pm
Rebecca Rattner The Formation of the Spartacus League: A Radical Alternative to Social Democracy and Bolshivism, 1900-1919

3:30 pm
Sam Bollier CAP, CAAs, and AVs: The Turbulent History of Federally-Sponsored Community Action in Eastern Kentucky, 1960-1970